Isa 17:11, Jer 9:12 | ESV | STEP | though you make them grow on the day that you plant them, and make them blossom in the morning that you sow , yet the harvest will flee away in a day of grief and incurable pain .

Isaiah 17:11

11 though you make them grow ^{▼▼Or though you carefully fence them} on the day that you plant them,
and make them blossom in the morning that you sow,
yet the harvest will flee away ^{▼▼Or will be a heap}
in a day of grief and incurable pain.

Jeremiah 9:12

12 ^cWho is the man so wise that he can understand this? To whom has the mouth of the Lord spoken, that he may declare it? Why is the land ruined ^dand laid waste like a wilderness, so that no one passes through?